Fidelity of precipitation extremes in high resolution global climate simulations

Procedia Computer Science

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 2178-2187

  Mahajan, Salil ^a   Evans, Katherine J ^a   Branstetter, Marcia ^a   Anantharaj, Valentine ^a   Leifeld, Juliann K ^b  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate extremes; High resolution climate modeling; Non stationarity of extremes

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ANNUAL MAXIMUM PRECIPITATION; CLIMATE EXTREMES; GENERALIZED EXTREME VALUE (GEV) DISTRIBUTIONS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; GLOBAL CLIMATE SIMULATIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION CLIMATE MODEL; HIGH RESOLUTION SIMULATIONS; NON-STATIONARITIES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 84939197522     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18770509     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2015.05.492     Document Type: Conference Paper

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